Perception

It is not a question of non-existent things being conjured up. It is just that all through life we protect ourselves in so many ways from so many hurtful truths just by being a bit blind here, a bit short-sighted there, and by squinting against the incoming light all the time simply because we are afraid that its weight might hit us real bad and hard. That is what the prudent chose to call LIFE.

The 'destructive' thing philosophy does is to lift the blindness and to let you see the whole of your life laid out in front of you. Now what you see, whether it comes up from hidden things inside your soul or from the common facts of the waking life you lead, is not false.

But its truth is the deep, dangerous kind of truth that you've managed to side-stepped all along, and that can certainly frighten you into depression. A desperate, gloomy act if the life you have been living is already of itself deeply gloomy and deeply desperate.

Now after seeing your life flashed right across your face, you can choose to accept it as it is laid out before you or just ignore it as you've always done.

The choice is yours, but, I reckon accepting it the way it is laid down before you is the beginning of living right.

Think about it.

Down Here

Before I start, let me point this out. It is not all gloomy out here, some people have managed to leap beyond it, but to the average man on the streets, it is enough to lead him into depression.

I'm grateful for the good times, tired of the whole despondent drama but thanks to my parents for bringing me up in the way of the Lord, for letting me know that it's not an easy world. For making me able to see the light from the darkness, but now the light has almost been eclipsed by what I can only describe as 'madness' which is evident all over the nation.

It is like loosing your mind in the middle of crying, like dying before you are old enough to harness your potentials not to talk of reaching your prime. It's all up in the fighting, the shooting and the killing, political deceiving, corruption of the highest order, scams, prostituting for grades, insecurity, back-biting, and more recently and most worryingly, kidnapping. How can a man describe being a captive (not by the law but by dejected souls who feel nothing at all for the next man) in his own country?

Now imagine if you had the choice to choose and be choosy if you really want to come down here, imagine if you had the chance to preview and review all things that you will meet down here. I bet you your answer would be 'I don't want to go down there', out of fear and despair. I bet you will be screaming that we are crazy down here. We are not crazy but the sad reality of our situation has brought us to our knees without our knowing it. We accept and appraise mediocrity when we should be aiming higher.

Nine months in your mother's belly, preparing for the ultimate journey, oblivious of the things that you will meet out here. It is like being born into slavery and living in captivity. You could have the spirit of a hustler, the peace of of a dove or the instincts of a leader, on the other side, you could have a training for terror with the mind of a murderer. It is all down to how mentally strong you are, even in the midst of such uncertainty, we still have the power to choose how to fight it.

The big question is how are you fighting it???

NB: This article's inspired by 2face's song.